The study aims to consider scientific opinions on the feasibility and effectiveness of introducing misdemeanor category into Russian criminal-legal complex conduct a comparative legal analysis within framework foreign legislation historical retrospective. authors use comparative-legal, historical-legal, statistical methods, as well method systemic analysis. article studies issues relevant crimi...

This Article’s argument proceeds as follows. Part I examines the capacity of existing criminal law landscape to accommodate survivor-defendants by applying available defenses and mechanisms these cases. concludes that none current legal doctrines adequately respond unique pressures circumstances victims/survivors experience. In II, Article questions moral legitimacy state criminalize punish sur...

When the link between psychedelic drugs and mystical states of experience was first discovered in 1960s, Huston Smith challenged scholars religion philosophy to consider implications. Very few took up his challenge. Beginning 2006, hundreds studies have linked psychedelics not just but potential treatments for many mental health disorders. Regulatory approval therapies is on horizon, millions p...

The purpose of this paper is to review and analyze the juridical by prosecutor in criminal procedural law. In writer uses normative method. conclusion discussion that handling narcotics cases, especially offenders who are more emphasized as victims or addicts, judges Indonesia can be said rarely make legal breakthroughs emphasize social values humanity live society. Judges only see side Act reg...

Abstract Starting from the premise that agenda on reproductive rights is home to political disputes in field of sexuality and reproduction, this article reviews debate held at public hearing Argument Noncompliance with a Fundamental Precept (Arguição de Descumprimento Preceito Fundamental, ADPF) # 442 August 2018. The lawsuit proposes decriminalization abortion induced by pregnant woman herself...

The global epidemiology of human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infection among men who have sex with men (MSM) suggests both reemergent spread among men in resource-sufficient countries since 2000 and emerging epidemics among MSM in resource-limited countries. Both epidemic contexts are evidence of the current limits of prevention of HIV infection in MSM. A range of evidence-based preventive int...

The increased cooperation between European Union member states in many policy areas has made it increasingly difficult for individual countries to pursue national policies on issues like drugs. The drug policies of the Netherlands, which center squarely on harm reduction, were under severe attack in recent years. Yet a good look at the actual practices in many other countries leaves no doubt th...

©2015 8872147 Canada Inc. or its licensors CMAJ, November 3, 2015, 187(16) 1211 According to the 2011 United Nations World Drug Report, the prevalence of cannabis use in the Netherlands, where cannabis has been de facto legal for the last 40 years, is lower than in many other European countries, the United States and Canada.1 Jurisdictions that have recently legalized cannabis (Uruguay and four...